Archaeologist and anthropologist Jerry Moore reviews the findings that explain a relationship marked first by fear and then ...

A scholar claims to have deciphered Cryptic B, a mysterious alphabet in the Dead Sea Scrolls long thought impossible to read.

For decades, scholars studying the Dead Sea Scrolls have puzzled over a small group of strange symbols and alphabets that appeared to belong to no known writing system. Now, a researcher says one of ...

Learn more about the fossilized trackway, which provides important insights into the movement of massive dinosaurs.

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

The End of an Era is a quietly devastating behind-the-scenes docuseries that captures the human cost of running the biggest ...

A thick layer of more than 12 miles of rock may explain why Bermuda seems to float above the surrounding ocean.

While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...

Beneath five feet of sediment on the Mediterranean seafloor, archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient ...

This video followed a search through the Edfu Temple to locate a rare inscription describing an ancient island civilization ...

Learn about tannins, the plant molecule that dries out your mouth and provides a surprising number of health benefits.

A bout 76 percent of all non-visually impaired people experience something known as "floaters". These appear as moving structures, like little worms, that sometimes appear in your field of vision if ...